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NOTES OF THE TURF C A Tilles of Little Rock speaks glowingly of the prospects for the annual spring meeting of the Arkansas Jockey Club at Little Rock This meet ¬ ing commences March 24 and horse owners are already flocking to the Clinton Park track Barney Schreibers big string of twentyfive head arrived there last week in charge of Dick Williams The Schreiber horses are quartered in the big barn formerly occupied by George Bennetts horses Paul J Miles is another recent arrival at Little Bock He brought a small but select string of run ¬ ners from San Francisco R R Rice has also arrived with Wax Taper Miss Dora Varner and other good ones onesTrainer Trainer James Rowe has ordered The Huguenot winner of the Withers the Brooklyn Derby and other great eastern events shipped from Lexing ¬ ton Ky to his training grounds at Brookdale N J with the idea of training the horse for racing this season The horse came to Lexington unsound j but has rounded to and it is believed he will stand training Ho is a full brother to Henry of Navarre by Knight of Ellerslie Moss Rose by The 111 Used UsedTurney Turney Bros of Tillo and Dr Catlett racing fame are in receipt of a telegram from General W H Jackson of Belle Meado Stud Nashville Tenn that their noted Feronica by Virginius dam of Maude Gonne winner of the Englewood Memorial and Tennessee Brewing Companys Stakes has foaled a filly by The Commoner The youngster is a sister to the flying Maud Gonne The mare will be bred back to ThoCommoner ThoCommonerL L Jackson who rode Eonic to victory in the Burns Handicap had this to say I had no idea I could win the race until I passed the half mile post on the backstretch I was lucky to get through a small opening in the stretch but I did not use my whip until the threeeighths post had been reached Then Eonic responded in game fashion and came away easily easilyDr Dr Kehoe the veterinarian who has arrived at New Orleans from Memphis states that neither Aladdin nor McChesney will be starters in the Derby Hildreth had intended to send McChesney to Mobile and prepare him there but the colt devel ¬ oped a cold so that the plan was abandoned abandonedA A number of horses arrived at Charleston S C from New Orleans several days ago Among them were Lexington Pirate and John Boone
